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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The U.S. Air Force has thousands of Sony PlayStation 3 consoles on its wish list this season, but the brass aren't waiting to play Call of Duty; they want to string the machines together to create a massive supercomputer. Professor David Bader, executive director of high performance computing at Georgia Tech, has researched the possibility of using PS3 clusters in aircraft monitoring and financial risk assessment.
